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Show FEDERAL BUREAU ASPS MOTORISTS Mere Efficient Fuels and Less Expensive Engines Being Studied. Motorists throughout the entire world are daily beneficiaries of rtie marvelous automotive laboratories of Uncle Sam's great bureau of standards at Washington, according to Charles M. Hayes, president of 1 lie Chicago Motor club, who lias just received t recent digest of the bureau's activities In behalf of motordom through national na-tional headquarters of the American Automobile association. "Take fuels, for example," points out Mr. Hayes. "Here is a field of research re-search of tremendous importance to every user of an automobile. Through years of experimentation, the bureau's scientists have built up a body of knowledge which has proved of Inestimable Ines-timable value to the petroleum in t'ustry, and, consequently to the motorist. mo-torist. More efficient fuels, nnd more economical engines, are Just single Instances In-stances of the great constructive work constantly being pushed forward at the bureau." Examining Into the details of the bureau's accomplishments during the last few years. Mr. Hayes declares "this governmental agency has made monumental contributions to the cause of safer motoring." Most Exhaustive Tests. "It has done this." he mints nut. "by conducting tests which have proved best methods In braking, of brake ma terlals, and of general construction." These tests, he shows, have been of a most exhaustive character. "Nothing." he declares, "has been allowed to stand In the way of their successful completion. "In every direction, nnd In every conceivable phase of motor engineering, engineer-ing, the bureau has Interfiled Itself to bring about Improvement. Naturally. In this work the bureau has had the fullest co-operation of the automotive Industry Itself and of organized motordom mo-tordom as represented In the American Automobile association, of which we are proud to be a part. "For that reason, the bureau has meant Increasingly much to all those who on or drive molor cars." |